Police search the area around a body on Lancaster Lane on Monday night. There was a fatal shooting Monday night in front of 5630 Lancaster Lane. Sergeant Barton told media that there was one deceased individual and that one person was in custody. According to the sergeant, witnesses say that it was a domestic dispute.
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Police search the area around a body on Lancaster Lane on Monday night. There was a fatal shooting Monday night in front of 5630 Lancaster Lane. Sergeant Barton told media that there was one deceased individual ... more

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One woman, center, is helped from 5630 Lancaster Lane by two others Monday night. There was a fatal shooting Monday night in front of 5630 Lancaster Lane. Sergeant Barton told media that there was one deceased individual and that one person was in custody. According to the sergeant, witnesses say that it was a domestic dispute.
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One woman, center, is helped from 5630 Lancaster Lane by two others Monday night. There was a fatal shooting Monday night in front of 5630 Lancaster Lane. Sergeant Barton told media that there was one deceased ... more

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Police search the area around a body on Lancaster Lane on Monday night. There was a fatal shooting Monday night in front of 5630 Lancaster Lane. Sergeant Barton told media that there was one deceased individual and that one person was in custody. According to the sergeant, witnesses say that it was a domestic dispute.
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Police search the area around a body on Lancaster Lane on Monday night. There was a fatal shooting Monday night in front of 5630 Lancaster Lane. Sergeant Barton told media that there was one deceased individual ... more

Photo: Jake Daniels

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Victim named in Beaumont's 1st homicide of 2014

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Beaumont police are investigating the first homicide of the year when officers responded to a shooting in the 5600 block of Lancaster Lane in the city's North End at about 7:50 p.m. Monday.

Police arrested a suspect after finding a 20-year-old gunshot victim identified as Emanuel Burleigh of Beaumont. Paramedics arriving at the scene said the man was dead, said Beaumont Police Sgt. Rob Flores.

Burleigh, 20, suffered a wound to the upper body, a preliminary police report said. An autopsy will be performed Tuesday afternoon.

The report said, "Officers located the suspect at the scene and he voluntarily accompanied detectives to our police station to give a statement. Detectives also took statements from other witnesses at the scene."

The police report said information shows the victim and suspect were acquainted and had been involved in a dispute earlier in the evening at another location, parting ways.

"After the first disturbance, the victim apparently showed up at the house in the 5600 block of Lancaster and confronted the suspect again. The disturbance became physical and the suspect produced a gun and fired it at the victim," the police report said.

Police said as of Tuesday morning, the man arrested was no longer in custody. The case will be sent to the district attorney for review.